What does the grass look like? (photos of various herbs). Treatment of skin and inflammatory processes
About, what does this or that grass look like in the photo must know for people interested in collecting and preparing herbs, as well as traditional treatment herbs. In this article you can see what the most popular medicinal herbs look like in the photo, as well as read brief descriptions of them.
SAGEBRUSH - looks like a perennial herb or subshrub with a height of 3 to 150 cm, having a thick root. Its stems are straight. The plant has dense white-gray drooping. The leaves of wormwood are pinnately or palmately divided, sometimes dissected whole, the lobes are small and thin. The lower leaves are larger in size. The scanty yellow (rarely reddish) flowers are collected in small inflorescences. The fruits are small and smooth, the achenes do not have a tuft.
What wormwood grass looks like (photo of wormwood)
ORIGIN - a perennial herbaceous plant with a height of 30-75 cm with bare creeping rhizome. Oregano looks like a subshrub with a 4-sided, erect and bare stem at the top. Oregano leaves are petiolate, oblong-ovate, opposite, pointed at the tip, dark green above, gray-green below, length from 1 to 4 cm. Small pink or pink-purple flowers are collected in small corymbose-paniculate inflorescences, bracts most often have dark red in color, and the corollas are purple with a pinkish tint. Oregano grass blooms in July-August.
What the herb oregano looks like (photo of oregano)
DREAM - a herb that belongs to the Umbelliferae family. It looks like this: the leaves are oblong, ovoid, located on long stalks. Inflorescences in the form of umbrellas without leaves or involucre. The flowers are small, white, sometimes Pink colour. They have 5 stamens. The fruits are flattened laterally and have thin thread-like ribs.
What does the grass look like (photo of the grass)
St. John's wort - a perennial herb, more precisely a subshrub, shrub or even tree. St. John's wort has a tetrahedral stem. Leaves are opposite. entire, sometimes translucent. The cuttings are short. Flowers solitary or numerous in semi-umbrellas. The flower has 5 sepals. The fruit looks like a leathery capsule, which, when ripe, cracks into three to five multi-seeded nests.
What the herb St. John's wort looks like (photo of St. John's wort)
DURMAN - grass, less often a tree-like plant. The height of the grass is from 0.5 to 1 m. The stem is bare, erect. The leaves are ovate-pointed, alternate, up to 15 cm long, up to 10 cm wide, dark green above, slightly lighter below. The flowers are located in the forks of the stem, solitary and large. The corolla is white. The fruit is large, ovoid, and is basically a four-locular capsule covered with multiple spines. When ripe, the box dries completely and splits into 4 leaves. Plant poisonous.
What does Datura grass look like (photo of Datura grass)
What woodlouse grass looks like (photo of woodlouse grass)
Woodlouse or chickweed is an annual plant. It has a branched-creeping cylindrical stem, up to 10 cm high. Woodlice leaves are ovoid in shape with pointed edges. The flowers are small, white, and star-shaped. The grass blooms in May - August.
CELANDINE (Warthog) - herbaceous perennial having a straight, branched stem, the height of which reaches from 50 to 100 cm. At the break, the chesotel secretes a thick, milky juice, which, under the influence of oxygen, gradually acquires an orange-red hue. The leaves are deeply pinnately divided, petiolate, having 3-5 pairs of oval lobes. The flowers are regular in shape, collected in a simple umbrella type, and have a golden yellow color. Each flower has 4 petals, each of which is about 1 cm long. The grass blooms from May to August. The fruits look like many seed pods.
Herbal treatment is the most ancient way fight against all kinds of diseases. Over the thousands of years of its existence, man has found and studied healing properties hundreds medicinal plants that can help this or that disease. Over the long history, many effective recipes, many of which have survived and are used in folk medicine today.
This section of the site presents many types of medicinal herbs, including field species, with high-quality photographs, the name of each plant and a detailed description of them useful properties and methods of application.
Despite the enormous pace of development traditional medicine and all the new products that it offers pharmaceutical industry, the use of medicinal plants to treat all kinds of diseases still remains relevant and does not lose its popularity. They can be used both for the prevention and treatment of various chronic and acute diseases in any field of medicine.
Medicinal herbs used in folk medicine can be fresh or dried, used both externally and internally. Medicinal herbs are much safer for human health than pharmaceutical drugs. They have fewer contraindications and side effects on the body.
For treatment use:
- tinctures;
- decoctions;
- extracts;
- infusions;
- tea fees.
Despite its apparent simplicity and harmlessness, unconventional treatment requires knowledge and caution. After all, for positive result, medicinal raw materials, must be collected correctly. And the tinctures, decoctions or extracts made from them are prepared only according to exact recipes. We should not forget about dosages. This is especially true for those medications that need to be taken orally.
It is advisable, before preparing medicine from herbs, to study our website, which lists medicinal herbs, photos with names, learn about the indications and contraindications of a particular medicinal plant, and methods of their preparation. You must not forget to carefully examine the raw materials for the medicine itself. It should be free of mold, dirt and other defects.
Common warbler ( Aegopódium podagrária) is a grass of the Umbelliferae family.
Description of the grass
From Latin, soreness is translated as “pain in the legs”, due to its unique ability to fight joint diseases, rheumatism and gout.
Aegopodium podagraria is a plant up to 100 cm high, with a long rhizome and an erect, full stem. Its leaves are quite large, and the flowers are presented in the form of small complex umbrella inflorescences white. The flowering period of the grass occurs in May-June, and the fruits, 3-4 mm in size, dark brown in color, ripen in late summer.
The plant grows mainly in the European part of Russia. A favorable environment for it is mixed forests, sunlit forest glades and edges. It loves light very much, and blooms where there is a lot of sun.
Useful properties and uses of common dream
Aegopodium podagraria- a plant that has collected many beneficial properties. Therefore, it is actively used in medicine (traditional, folk).
Dryweed is distinguished by a rich set of useful elements: natural antibiotics, ascorbic acid, potassium, magnesium, manganese, amino acids, essential oils. It is an effective antifungal, immunostrengthening, invigorating and energetic agent. Helps strengthen capillaries and tidy up nervous system and reduce cholesterol. Also used in the fight against cancer.
This herb is used in the manufacture of medications prescribed for hypovitaminosis, normalization of metabolism, diseases and disorders normal functioning kidney
Mosquito is an excellent antiseptic and antifungal agent, therefore it is used in the treatment of burns, mycoses, bedsores and other skin lesions. Tinctures from this herb help with disorders urinary system, diseases of the lungs and gastrointestinal tract.
Contraindications for use
To avoid personal intolerance to the plant, before using it in medicinal purposes, it is recommended to consult a doctor.
Snitch recipes
For joint diseases, gout, rheumatism, kidney diseases, rheumatism, it is recommended to make and take healing tincture. To prepare it you will need: 2 tbsp. spoons of the plant, pour 250 ml of boiling water and place in a water bath for 15 minutes. Strain and squeeze the broth, pour in an additional 1 glass of water. Take the resulting mixture orally throughout the day.
Topical use of the plant is also allowed: chop the washed leaves of the plant and apply it to the sore spot.
It is used in preparing dishes (salads). To obtain enriched useful substances salad, you need to take freshly picked leaves of the plant, keep in boiling water for about 10 minutes, remove and cut. Mix chopped leaves with grated horseradish and mayonnaise or sour cream.
Snitch close-up photo
It is a mistake to believe that useful medicinal plants are found only in the wild. Of course, they are mainly collected in forests and meadows. But with the same success it is possible to grow medicinal herbs in personal plots - of course, if conditions are created that are close to natural.
Below you can see photos and descriptions of medicinal plants, as well as find out what medicinal herbs are and how you can grow them in your garden.
Forest and meadow medicinal herbs
St. John's wort (HYPERICUM). St. John's wort family.
When talking about what medicinal herbs there are, St. John's wort is one of the first that comes to mind. It is a rhizomatous herb, but more often a subshrub and shrub. Another name for this medicinal herb is “Ivanovo grass”. It is due to the fact that St. John's wort begins to bloom on Midsummer's Day.
The leaves of this herbaceous medicinal plant are whole, hard, and in some species they overwinter; flowers solitary or in corymbose inflorescence, golden. Flower growers often use herbs or shrubs.
Kinds:
St. John's wort (H. ascyron)– forest medicinal herb Siberia and the Far East, up to 100 cm high, lanceolate leaves up to 10 cm long.
St. John's wort calyx (H. calycinum)- plant 25 cm high, from the Eastern Mediterranean, leaves are oval, large.
Gebler's St. John's wort (H. gebleri)– a medicinal plant of the wet meadows of the Far East, bright orange flowers, resistant.
St. John's wort (H. olympicum)- dry forests of Southern Europe, height 50 cm, not stable in central Russia, leaves narrow-lanceolate, glaucous, height 25 cm.
St. John's wort (N. perforatum).
Growing conditions. The genus is very diverse in terms of the ecological needs of the species; it also includes typical plants of Central Russian meadows - h. perforated, and drought-resistant, heat-loving subshrubs of Southern Europe (W. cup-shaped, W. Olympic).
They are grown in sunny, wind-protected locations with well-drained alkaline soils. Drought resistant.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush (in spring and late summer) and cuttings. Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Melissa (MELISSA). Family Lamiaceae (Labiaceae).
Melissa officinalis (M. officinalis)- perennial of Southern Europe, forms a dense bush 40-60 cm high from branched dense stems covered with ovate leaves, jagged along the edges. The entire plant is softly pubescent. The flowers are small, white, in whorls. And if the description of this medicinal plant is unremarkable, then the aroma deserves the highest praise. The plant exudes a very pleasant lemon scent, which is why it is sometimes called lemon balm. The variety "Aurea" has leaves with yellow spots.
Growing conditions. Sunny and semi-shaded places with rich loose soils.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing in spring) or dividing the bush (in spring and late summer). Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Mint (MENTHA). Family Lamiaceae (Labiaceae).
(M. piperita)- a perennial from the countries of Southern Europe with a branched, hairy stem 60-80 cm high. The leaves are ovate, dark green; the shoot ends in a spike-shaped inflorescence with whorls of purple flowers. It grows quickly due to above-ground stolons.
Growing conditions. Light and semi-shaded places with loose fertile soils.
Reproduction. Sections of rooted stolons. Planting density - 12 pcs. per 1 m2.
Lovage (LEVISTICUM).
Lovage officinalis(L. officinaie)- decorative deciduous perennial with thick rhizome. The leaves are shiny, slightly bluish, pinnately dissected, large in the rosette and on the stem. The stem is branched, up to 150 cm high, bearing a large umbrella of yellowish flowers. The whole plant has a specific pleasant aroma, therefore it is also used as a flavoring agent.
Growing conditions. Sunny to semi-shaded locations with clayey, rich, moist soils.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing before winter), dividing the bush (in spring and late summer). Planting density -3 pcs. per 1 m2.
Soapwort (SAPONARIA). Clove family.
Perennials with creeping rhizomes, growing mainly in the Mediterranean. The flowers are fragrant, collected in a shield.
Kinds:
Soapwort officinalis(S. officinalis)- height 100 cm.
Soapwort basilicofolia (S. ocymoides)- height 10 cm.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with well-drained, light, lime-rich soil. Planting density - 16 pcs. per 1 m2.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring), summer cuttings.
Briefly about medicinal plants of forests and meadows
Below you can find a description of the medicinal herbs comfrey, yarrow, echinacea and valerian.
Comfrey (SYMPHYTUM). Borage family.
Perennials with thick rhizomes, 30-100 cm high, from the light forests of Europe and the Caucasus. The stems are winged, thick, straight. Leaves are petiolate, lanceolate. Plants are covered with stiff hairs. Flowers in drooping inflorescences - curl.
Kinds:
Caucasian comfrey (S. caucasicum)- 80-100 cm high, forms a thicket, blue flowers.
Comfrey officinalis (S. officinale)- 50-60 cm high, forms bushes.
Comfrey grandiflora (S. grandiflorum)- low (30-40 cm) compact bushes.
Growing conditions. Shady and semi-shady places with moist peaty soils.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing in spring), dividing the bush (in spring and late summer). Planting density - 12 pcs. per 1 m2.
Yarrow (ACHILLEA). Family Asteraceae (Asteraceae).
The genus contains about 100 species, found in the meadows of the temperate zone. It attracts attention with its undemanding culture, ability to grow quickly and beautiful gray-green, usually feathery leaves. Small baskets are collected in a corymbose inflorescence (10-20 cm in diameter).
Yarrow(A. millefolium)- with a long branching rhizome, therefore it forms a thicket 70-80 cm high.
Yarrow ptarmika, sneezing herb (A. ptarmica), has a variety with white double flowers - pearl mussel, height - 60 cm.
U "Perry's White" and "The Pearl"- white balls of the baskets are collected in a loose brush.
Yarrow meadowsweet (A. filipendulina)- dense bush, 60-100 cm high, dark green, pinnate leaves; the flowers are bright yellow in dense large corymbs (diameter up to 9 cm).
Yarrow tomentosa (A. tomentosa)- 15-20 cm high, leaves finely dissected, grayish, pressed to the ground, shield of yellow flowers 6-8 cm in diameter.
Growing conditions. Sunny places with any garden soil, grows well in sand.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing before winter or spring), by dividing the bush (in spring and autumn). Planting density -5-9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Echinacea (ECHINACEA). Family Asteraceae (Asteraceae).
Perennial tall (up to 150 cm) herbs with a tap root and dense leafy stems, at the top in July-August with a large pinkish basket. The leaves are oval, pubescent, with sharp-toothed edges. Three species are native to the grasslands and prairies of southeastern North America.
Most often grown echinacea purpurea (E. purpurea) with a dark pink basket.
Echinacea angustifolia(E. angustifolia) has a smaller and lighter basket.
And Echinacea pallidum (E. pallida)- reed flowers are narrow, pale pink. Two last type more dry-loving.
Growing conditions. Sunny locations with rich soils.
Reproduction. By seeds (sown in spring), seedlings bloom in the 2nd year. The division of the bush is carried out in the spring. In one place without dividing, Echinacea can grow for up to 15 years. Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Echinacea purpurea will decorate any flower garden, mixborder, and can also be grown as individual bushes on the lawn. Often used as a medicinal plant.
Valerian (VALERIANA). Valerian family.
Perennial rhizome herbs of meadows and light forests of the temperate zone of Eurasia. They grow both as individual bushes and thickets (species with underground stolons). The flowers are small, in a beautiful openwork inflorescence-tassel, the leaves are usually pinnate.
Kinds:
Mountain valerian(V. montana)- bush 40 cm high, pink flowers in bunches.
Valerian officinalis(V. officinalis)-height up to 100 cm, white flowers, pinnate leaves.
Valeriana Fori (V. fauriei)- forms thickets 40 cm high.
Valerian lipophylla(V. tiliifolia)- up to 150 cm high, leaves are large, simple, heart-shaped, flowers are white, in a corymbose inflorescence.
Growing conditions. Sunny and semi-shaded areas with moderately moist rich soils.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing in spring and before winter), by dividing the bush (in spring), they are often weeded. Planting density -5 pcs. per 1 m2.
If we talk about this medicinal plant briefly, we can define it medicinal properties like sedatives. And in landscape design it is used to create a dense evergreen ground cover on tree trunks and spots on shady rockeries.
Description of the best medicinal herbs
(SALVIA). Family Lamiaceae (Labiaceae).
A large genus (almost 700 species), which includes plants of different life forms, growing all over the world. They all contain essential oils and grow in warm habitats. The leaves are ovate, the stems are branched, the final inflorescence is a raceme of medium-sized helmet-shaped flowers.
Kinds:
Sage sticky(S. glutinosa)- subshrub up to 100 cm high, from the forests of Southern Europe, pale yellow flowers.
Meadow sage(S. pratensis)- height 70-80 cm, blue flowers.
Sage rejected(S. patens)- height 70 cm, blue flowers.
Oak sage (S. nemorosa)- height 60 cm, purple flowers.
Salvia officinalis(S. officinalis)-height 50 cm.
Growing conditions. This is one of the best medicinal plants that prefers sunny areas (except for sticky sage) with fertile, well-drained soils.
Reproduction. By seeds (spring), dividing the bush (spring and late summer). Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Toothwort (DENTARIA). The cabbage (cruciferous) family.
Perennial herbs 15-20 cm high with a long, clear rhizome and dark green leaves, large pink and crimson flowers. Typical early spring forest ephemeroids, ending the growing season already in June. They are attractive because they form a bright pink flowering carpet in spring. They bear fruit. They form self-seeding.
Kinds:
Toothwort tuberiferous(D. bulbifera)- a plant of the Caucasus with fawn-colored flowers.
Glandular teeth (D. glandulosa)- from the Carpathians, with large crimson flowers.
Five-leaved toothwort (D. quinquefolia)- from the forests of Europe, pink flowers.
Growing conditions. Shaded areas under a canopy of trees with forest soils, moderate moisture.
Reproduction. Seeds (sow freshly collected) and sections of rhizomes (after the end of flowering). Planting density - 25 pcs. per 1 m2.
Initial letter (BETONICA). Family Lamiaceae (Labiaceae).
About 15 species growing in temperate meadows. Short-rhizomatous herbs that form decorative dense bushes of ovate rosettes, crenate along the edges of leaves.
Kinds:
Capital letter grandiflora - grandiflora chistema (B. macrantha = B. grandiflora = Stachys macranthus) 50-60 cm high, beautiful leaves and dark pink large flowers.
Medicinal initial letter (B. officinalis)- taller plant (80-90 cm), smaller flowers.
Growing conditions. Sunny places with fertile soils and moderate moisture.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush (spring and late summer) and seeds (sowing before winter). Seedlings bloom in the third year. Planting density - 12 pcs. per 1 m2.
Burnet (SANGUISORBA). Rosaceae family.
Short-rhizome perennials from wet meadows of the temperate zone of Eurasia.
Kinds:
Burnet (officinalis) (S. officinais)- 80-100 cm high, dark red flowers.
Gorgeous burnet (S. magnifica)- height 80-90 cm, large pinkish-crimson flowers.
Small burnet (S. minor)- height 40 cm, graceful inflorescences, red flowers, openwork plant.
Growing conditions. Sunny and semi-shaded areas with fertile, moist soils.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing in autumn), dividing the bush (in spring and late summer). Planting density – 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Perennial medicinal herbs with photos and descriptions
Below are photos and descriptions of the medicinal herbs elecampane, zopnik and cuff:
Elecampane (INULA). Family Asteraceae (Asteraceae).
Perennial herbaceous species (about 200), widely distributed in meadows and light forests in the temperate zone of Eurasia. The rhizomes are thick, powerful, and the root system is deep. The basal leaves are large, heart-shaped, oval, the stems are straight, slightly branched (except for elecampane), the flowers are large yellow “daisies”.
Kinds:
Elecampane magnificent(I. magnifica = I. orientalis)- up to 150 cm high, branched stem, basket -15 cm in diameter in sparse corymbs, spreading bush.
Elecampane tall (I. helenium)- stems are slightly branched, 150-200 cm high, elliptical leaves, baskets 6 cm in diameter, cylindrical bush.
Inula elecampane(I. ensifolia)- 30 cm high, narrow leaves, basket 4 cm, Compacta variety - 20 cm high.
Growing conditions. Sunny places with any garden soil and average moisture. Hardy perennials.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing in spring), dividing the bush (in spring). Elecampane is a perennial medicinal herb that lives without transplantation or division for 8-10 years. Planting density of large plants - 3 pcs. per 1 m2; Elecampane sword-leaved - 12 pcs.
Zopnik (PHLOMIS). Lamiaceae family.
Perennial herbs (about 100 species) with a thick rhizome or tap root, rough leaves, flowers collected in false whorls forming a spike-shaped inflorescence.
Kinds:
Zopnik Roussel(P. russeliana)- 90 cm high, yellowish-pinkish flowers.
Zopnik tuberiferous (P. tuberosa)- 50-70 cm high, purple flowers.
Zopnik meadow (P. pratensis)- 50-70 cm high, pink flowers.
Cuff (ALCHEMILLA). Rosaceae family.
Pay attention to the photo of this medicinal herb - the cuff has a short rhizome and a rosette of round, often fluffy, bright green leaves forming a spherical bush. At the height of summer, loose openwork inflorescences of small yellow flowers rise above them. Flowering is abundant and long lasting.
Kinds:
Alpine cuff(A. aipina)- with trifoliate dense leaves and small inflorescences.
Red petiolate cuff (A. erythropoda)- with gray-green dense leaves, 30 cm high.
Soft cuff(A. moiiis)- the most beautiful, stable, undemanding cuff. Its leaves are round, fluffy, pale green with a wavy edge, up to 6 cm in diameter. Peduncles are numerous, up to 60-70 cm high.
Growing conditions. Sunny and semi-shaded areas with loose, fertile neutral soils and moderate moisture. Does not tolerate stagnant moisture.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing in spring) and dividing the bush (in spring and late summer). Easily tolerates division and transplantation. Planting density - 5 bushes per 1 m2.
One of the most colorful, consistently decorative and interesting plants in mixed flower beds. The cuff looks good in flower beds of the “natural garden” style and in mixborders together with cornflower, heuchera, cornflowers, coreopsis, etc. It is used to decorate bouquets, giving them lightness and delicacy.
Medicinal herbs and their cultivation
Thyme, thyme, Bogorodskaya herb (THYMUS). Family Lamiaceae (Labiaceae).
A large genus (about 400 species) of herbaceous perennials and subshrubs with recumbent or erect woody stems and straight, upward-pointing peduncles. They grow on rocks in the southern regions of Eurasia. The leaves are small, oval, opposite, leathery, usually overwintering. Due to recumbent, rooting shoots, plants quickly grow, forming low, dense “mats” and “pillows” (10-30 cm high), emitting a pleasant aroma. In mid-summer, numerous inflorescence heads of small flowers appear.
Kinds:
Lemon-scented thyme (Th. citriodorus).
Common thyme (T. vulgaris)- height 5-15 cm, leaves are pubescent on the underside.
creeping thyme (T. serpyllum)- leaves are larger than those of other species.
Growing conditions. Sunny locations with light, well-drained soil, neutral or alkaline. Grows on sand.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush (in spring and late summer), by seeds (sowing before winter), by cuttings (in spring). Planting density - 25 pcs. per 1 m2.
Used as a carpet plant in mixed flower beds, rockeries and on paths among tiles. Looks good in containers.
Hellebore (VERATRUM). Melanthiaceae (lily) family.
Tall (100-150 cm) herbaceous perennials growing in meadows and steppes of the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. Powerful short rhizome and deep roots. The stems are straight, thick, and bear tough, folded along the veins, elliptical, beautiful leaves. The flowers are small, open, in a large paniculate inflorescence. All species are similar in appearance.
Kinds:
White hellebore (V. album)- flowers are whitish-greenish.
California hellebore(V. californicum)- flowers are white with green veins.
Black hellebore (V. nigrum)- flowers are blackish-brown.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with rich soils are moisture-loving, but tolerate drought well.
Reproduction. By seeds (sown in spring), seedlings bloom in the 5th-6th year. By dividing the bush (in spring), the divisions grow slowly and often die. Planting density - 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Chernogolovka (PRUNELLA). Family Lamiaceae (Labiaceae).
Perennials with creeping rhizomes, erect, low (25-40 cm) stems; leaves are entire, with an uneven edge; flowers in false whorls in a capitate inflorescence.
Kinds:
Chernogolovka grandiflora(P. grandiflora)- height 25 cm.
Webb's blackhead (P. x webbiana)- purple flowers.
Chernogolovka vulgaris (P. vulgaris)- flowers are reddish.
Growing conditions. Sunny and slightly shaded areas with garden, moderately moist soils.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush (in spring and late summer). Planting density - 16 pcs. per 1 m2. Capable of forming a thicket and growing weeds.
Euphorbia (EUPHORBIA). Euphorbiaceae family.
Large genus - about 2000 species, mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical regions globe, but there are species in the temperate zone. Their height, leaf shape and type of root system are different, but they stand out for their original flowers.
Look at the photo of this medicinal plant: small flowers are collected in an inflorescence, surrounded by a common veil in the form of a glass (which appears to be a flower), and the “glasses” are collected in complex umbrella-shaped inflorescences with wrappers. In general, all this gives the impression of a “flying”, openwork yellowish inflorescence.
In sunny dry places - cypress spurge (E. cyparissias)- a low-growing (15-20 cm) plant of the steppes with narrow bluish leaves, densely located on lodging stems.
In sunny places with rich soils - Euphorbia multicolor(E. poiychroma), forming a tall bush (50-60 cm) of densely leafy woody shoots.
In the shadow - long-horned spurge (E. macroceras) with a high stem (up to 100 cm) and scaly euphorbia (E. squamosa) 20-30 cm high with a spherical through bush.
Growing conditions. Euphorbias can grow in a wide variety of conditions depending on the ecological characteristics of the species, but always in well-drained soils.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing in spring) or dividing the bush (in spring and late summer).
They self-sow easily and are capable of weeding. Planting density - 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Eryngium (ERYNGIUM). Celery (umbelliferous) family.
About 230 species are known, growing on almost all continents. But in cultivation, perennial herbs are more often grown with leathery, whole or dissected leaves, prickly along the edges. The flowers are small, blue, located in the axil of the bracts and collected in a capitate inflorescence surrounded by hard, spiny involucre leaves. Magnificent for their originality and exoticism. They bear fruit abundantly.
Kinds:
Alpine eryngium(E. alpinum) - 70 cm high, interesting wrapper of bluish, curved upward leaves.
Amethyst eryngium (E. amethystinum)- amethyst blue wrapper.
Burg's eryngium (E. bourgatii)- 30-40 cm high, leathery leaves with a white pattern.
Eryngium flatifolia (E. planum)- a plant of the steppes of Europe and Asia, the stems are bluish, the capitate inflorescences are small, bluish.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with loose, poor, sandy or rocky soils.
Reproduction. By seeds (before winter) or by dividing the bush (in spring and late summer). Planting density - 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Wormwood (ARTEMISIA). Family Asteraceae (Asteraceae).
Large genus (more than 250 species). Of the numerous species, subshrubs and perennials with fragrant silvery leaves, pubescent or tomentose, are mainly cultivated. The flowers are inexpressive and colorless, so it is better to cut off the peduncles.
Kinds. In central Russia the most decorative and stable are:
Wormwood Pursha (A. purchiana)- forms a cover of straight stems with silvery elongated whole leaves, responds well to constant pruning, can be planted in borders.
Steller's Wormwood (A. steiieriana)- a low plant with spatulate leaves, forming dense spot, sometimes the leaves overwinter.
Wormwood Louis(A. iudoviciana)- with narrow, lanceolate leaves.
Wormwood Schmidt (A. schmidtiana), the “Nana” form is especially interesting, 15-20 cm high with rounded, heavily indented leaves.
Growing conditions. Wormwood is an undemanding plant that grows well in sunny places with any soil, and is especially good on well-drained sandy alkaline substrates.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush (in spring and late summer), by seeds (sowing in spring). Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Description of the best medicinal plants and their photos
In this chapter you can read the description of such medicinal herbs and plants as rhubarb, cat's foot, cyanosis, toadflax and mullein.
Rhubarb (RHEUM). Buckwheat family.
A powerful perennial with a multi-headed rhizome, from which large, round, five to seven-lobed light green leaves emerge on long, fleshy, ribbed reddish petioles.
At the end of spring, a powerful peduncle (up to 150 cm in height) rises above the rosette of leaves, bearing a large panicle of small whitish-fawn flowers. Grows in the meadows of Eurasia.
Kinds. In culture they often use:
Rhubarb palmate (Rh. palmatum) And R. Tangut (Rh. tanguticum) with more deeply dissected leaves.
Black Sea rhubarb (Rh. rhaponticum)-dense shiny leaves.
Growing conditions. Well-lit and semi-shaded areas with deep, fertile garden soils and normal moisture.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing before winter) and dividing the bush (in spring and late summer). Planting density is single.
Cat's paw, antennaria (ANTENNARIA). Family Asteraceae (Asteraceae).
Low (5-10 cm) dioecious plants from pine forests of Europe and North America. The leaves are densely pubescent, white-tomentose, overwintering, collected in a rosette. They grow due to creeping shoots. Flower baskets are small, round, in a capitate inflorescence.
Kinds. Cat's paw dioecious (A. dioica) has the forms:
"Tomentosa"- more densely pubescent; "Rubra"- with red pink flowers; "Minima"- height 5 cm.
"Rosea"- with pink flowers; Antennaria sun-loving(A. aprica)- height 10-15 cm.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with poor, slightly acidic, dry sandy soils. On ordinary garden soils it will quickly grow and lose its decorative properties.
Reproduction. By dividing a bush or a section of a creeping shoot (in spring or late summer). Plant densely - 36 pcs. per 1 m2.
On poor sandy soils it creates a low, slowly growing, but consistently decorative silvery ground cover.
Cyanosis (POLEMONIUM). Family of cyanaceae.
Cluster-rooted perennials, grow in light forests of the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. Bushes from 25 to 50 cm tall, decorative leaves, wintering; the flowers are numerous, collected in a raceme-like inflorescence, blue.
Kinds:
Creeping cyanosis(P. reptans)- height 30 cm.
blue cyanosis (P. caeruleum)- height 60 cm.
Growing conditions. Sunlit or semi-shaded areas with normal garden soils. A very undemanding plant.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing before winter), dividing the bush (in spring, late summer). Self-seeding possible. Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Toadflax (LINARIA). Norichnikov family.
Perennials from the Mediterranean with narrow leaves and two-lipped flowers with a spur in a racemose inflorescence. The plants are graceful, low (40-50 cm).
Kinds:
Dalmatian toadflax (L. daimatica)- yellow flowers.
Common toadflax (L. vuigaris)- yellow flowers.
Macedonian toadflax (L. macedonica)- pubescent plant, yellow flowers.
Purple toadflax (L. purpurea)- red flowers.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with loose sandy dry soils.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing in spring) and dividing the bush (in spring). Planting density - 20 pcs. per 1 m2.
Mullein (VERBASCUM). Norichnikov family.
Plants of open dry places of Europe and the Mediterranean. Biennials and perennials from 50 to 150 cm in height, basal leaves are large, on petioles; The stem is straight, with sessile, entire, pubescent leaves. The flowers are wheel-shaped, small, in a branched large inflorescence. A magnificent plant that provides flower garden architecture.
Kinds:
Hybrid mullein (V. x hybridum)- often grown as a two-year-old.
Olympic mullein (V. olympicum)- height 180-200 cm, leaves are very pubescent, flowers are yellow.
Purple mullein (V. phoeniceum)- height 100 cm, purple flowers in a sparse cluster.
Black mullein(V. nigrum)- height 120 cm, yellow flowers with a red center.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with loose sandy soils. Drought resistant.
Reproduction. Seeds (in spring), seedlings bloom in the second year.
It happens that summer residents scold this grass, considering it a malicious weed. But this is very useful plant. Dreamweed leaves contain choline, flavonoids, quercetin and kaempferol, which strengthen the walls of blood vessels, essential oil, fiber, carotene and vitamin C. Rich in carbohydrates and mineral salts, and microelements. It has diuretic and choleretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, wound healing, blood purifying properties, and improves digestion.
Helps remove fluid from the body. Mosquito has a pronounced antiscorbutic effect due to high content vitamin C, and the combination of iron, copper, manganese makes it possible to use it for some forms of anemia.
If you eat nettle immoderately, the blood will thicken greatly; if you drink plenty of aromatic teas from the leaves, stems, and roots of raspberries, the blood will thin out. In short, with an overdose of certain herbs, there is a risk of thrombosis, heart attack, stroke, etc. But this doesn’t happen when you use dream: chemical composition The plant is as close as possible to the formula of our blood, and a person can eat it painlessly for a long time. Thus, the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, who lived for many years as a hermit in the forest, already before his death told one Diveyevo sister that for three years he ate only the herb snitti: “I prepared food for myself from snitki. Do you know Snitka? I tore it up, put it in a pot, and if you pour a little water into it, it turns out to be a delicious meal. For the winter, I dried the snitka and ate that alone, and the brethren were surprised at what I ate. And I ate the snitka... And I didn’t reveal this to the brethren.”
Common duckweed (Aegopodium podagraria L.) is a perennial herbaceous umbellate plant from the celery family. Its stem is straight and hollow, grooved, slightly branched at the top, reaches 1 m. The upper leaves are small, on short petioles, the lower ones are larger, on long petioles, ovoid, double- and triple-triple, with denticles. The flowers are small, white, diverging on spokes, forming umbrellas. The largest umbrella is apical - it has 20-25 rays. It is he who produces the seeds. The plant blooms in June-July. The fruits ripen in August. The borer is widespread in the European part of the country, Western and Eastern Siberia, Sayanakh, in the Caucasus.
Probably, the word “to sleep” (or, according to Dahl, to dream) is akin to the word “food”, which means tasty food. The grass can be boiled, stewed, fried. It is especially useful in salads, to which leaves of sorrel, nettle, fireweed, dandelion are added for taste, and in the spring - linden and willow. Greens like onions, parsley, and dill also go into such salads. If desired, you can add sausage, egg, cheese, horseradish, and then the salad acquires a special taste. Salads will become more nutritious if you flavor them with a small amount apple cider vinegar, kvass, birch sap or sour berry juice. One of the components of salads is nuts, which can be replaced with rye crackers. Before eating raw, the greens are blanched in boiling water for 1-2 minutes.
Soups, borscht, and kholodniki are prepared from the leaves of snyti. Crushed dry leaves are added as a seasoning to first and second courses. They make pasta with cheese, caviar, and cabbage rolls from the leaves. Stewed with potatoes. It is good to ferment the leaves, like cabbage, and pickle or pickle the petioles. For the winter, you can prepare canned seasoning: for 1 kg of leaves, take 100 g of parsley, celery, and dandelion leaves. Pour boiling water over and drain in a colander after three minutes. When the water has drained, chop, add 300 g of chopped carrots and 100 g of onions. Mix everything, place in glass jars, fill with 10% chilled saline solution, cover with lids and sterilize. Half-liter jars - 20 minutes, liter jars - 30 minutes. Then the jars are sealed.
In folk medicine, crushed leaves of the plant are applied to wounds or rubbed into sore spots for gout, rheumatism, and radiculitis. Juice treats erysipelas, fungal infections skin.
An infusion of all parts of the plant is used in the treatment of kidney diseases, Bladder, prostate gland and appendages, with hepatocholecystitis, sore throat, cystitis, conjunctivitis, stomach ulcers, gastritis and colitis. Infusions are also used for headaches and joint diseases. For this, 2 tbsp. dry herbs, pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, leave for two hours in a warm place and drink 0.5 cups 20 minutes before meals.
All of the above diseases can be treated with tinctures. Fill a bottle or jar one-third full with dry rhizomes, fill it to the top with vodka, leave for two weeks in a dark place. Take 20-25 drops 20 minutes before meals. For external diseases, dilute the vodka tincture with water (1:1) and use it for lotions, rubdowns, and washes.
It is better to use very young leaves and shoots for food, while they are still yellowish-green and, as it were, “transparent”. Under different conditions, they can be of different lengths at this stage. Moleweed, growing in shady places, produces greens suitable for food longer, its leaves are larger and more tender. And for winter preparations, the plant is harvested in October-November, when it contains especially a lot of vitamin C. For medicinal purposes, the leaves and petioles of the plant are harvested during flowering (in June-July), and the rhizomes - in late autumn.
Dryweed grows everywhere: in the city, in the forest, in the countryside - it is one of the most common weeds that is familiar to everyone, but few have tried it. But in terms of usefulness, the nettle is on a par with nettles, and, unlike it, it can be consumed raw - the nettle does not need to be boiled or scalded.
The youngest shoots are collected for food when the leaf is still light green, shiny and unopened - it is crunchy and does not yet have a specific taste. Snyti greens are good for cabbage soup - they put it instead of cabbage. You just need to cook the squash just a little bit - it’s too tender. Also with the “weed” they make okroshka: kvass or yogurt, squirt, green onions, dill, cucumber - and a little mustard for spiciness.
The stew is stewed with potatoes: the herbs are stewed separately, the potatoes and onions are stewed separately, shortly before they are ready, they are combined and a little tomato juice is added.
Dreamweed has many advantages: it contains salts of iron, boron, manganese, it supports the immune system, helps with inflammation, kidney and liver diseases, anemia and vitaminosis, and promotes wound healing.
Moreover, the honey plant is as good as an excellent honey plant: when other plants do not provide enough nectar, it perfectly replaces them, giving healing honey, enriched with a lot of useful elements.
Medicinal properties of dream
Previously, gout was mainly used as an excellent remedy for gout and rheumatism (by the way, the scientific name of this plant - podagraria - is further proof of this). However, later other indications for the use of this herb were discovered, including:
bladder diseases,
kidney disease,
diseases of the gastrointestinal tract,
Problems respiratory system,
erysipelas,
diathesis,
fungal diseases.
The main advantage of dreaming is that it has no contraindications and side effects. At the same time, the action of the plant is truly extensive and multifaceted. Capable of whining:
relieve inflammation
heal the wound
relieve pain
strengthen the detoxification functions of the liver (which allows for better removal of various poisons from it),
improve the functioning of the stomach and intestines,
normalize salt metabolism.
In addition, it is recommended to include mole in the diet of patients suffering from anemia: this plant contains a fair amount of iron, and it is especially useful for anemic children who do not develop quickly enough. Also, this medicinal herb will be simply indispensable for adolescents suffering from nervous and cardiovascular systems: Meat contains quercetin, flavonoids and kaempferol, which perfectly strengthen the walls of blood vessels. This same quality makes it very valuable for older people who have problems with blood pressure and heart.
As for fungal diseases, polyacetylene compounds cope with them, which large quantities contains snot: lotions from its decoction are capable of short time rid the skin of fungus. Finally, the medicinal herb is also good as a sedative: if you take a bath at night from a decoction of the roots of the dream, you can get rid of insomnia and restless sleep.
Use of dream.
If it is recommended to use mainly the young leaves and shoots of this plant for food, then for medicinal purposes the aquatic plant is used mainly in dried form: it is harvested during the flowering period, dried at temperatures up to 30 degrees. Then decoctions and tinctures are prepared from it, and it is also included in various preparations, which are mainly used as diuretics, means to improve digestion and appetite, and to reduce joint pain. However, the medicinal properties of the dream do not persist for a long time. Plants collected and unused this year, unfortunately, will have to be thrown away next summer.
DOSAGE FORMS, METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION AND DOSES.
♦ Infusion of the herb dream: 15 g of raw material is poured into 400 ml of boiling water, left for 2 hours, then filtered. Take 1/2 cup 4 times a day before meals for diathesis and eczema.
Tincture from the roots is used as a compress for myositis.
♦ Sap juice: squeezed from the above-ground parts of young plants.
Take 1/4-1/3 cup with a tablespoon of honey.
Liver cleansing.
Brew 2 tablespoons of dream herb with 1 glass hot water and boil in a water bath for 15 minutes, leave for 45 minutes and strain. After this, bring the volume to the original boiled water. Drink 1 glass of infusion throughout the day.
For prevention oncological diseases make yourself some healing soup.
For it you need: 150 g of dream; 100 g each of mallow, plantain, nettle, knotweed; one leaf of celandine; 2.5 tbsp. spoons of oatmeal. Add some carrots, onions, vegetable oil.
Boil the cereal in 3 liters of water until tender and add chopped herbs and vegetables.
RECIPES:
Snot salad: snot, onion, dill, cucumber, potatoes, sour cream.
Snyti salad: 150 g fresh snyti, 25 g grated horseradish, 20 g sour cream, salt to taste. Wash the young leaves of the plant, pour boiling water over it and soak in it for 10 minutes. Drain the water, chop the leaves, add grated horseradish and salt, mix and season with sour cream.
Salad of sorrel and sorrel with vegetables: 80g of fresh sorrel. 20 g sorrel, 50 g potatoes, 10 g carrots. 5 g vegetable oil, 15 g spicy tomato sauce, salt to taste. Cut the boiled vegetables into small slices, put chopped sorrel and sorrel greens on them, add vegetable oil, sauce and salt.
Soup from greens with sourweed: 160 g of sourweed, mallow, plantain, knotweed, 40 g of oatmeal, 10 g of carrots, 10 g of onion, 10 g of butter, 40 g of sour cream, spices. First, cook the cereal until half cooked, then add the washed and chopped herbs and continue cooking for 20 minutes. At the end of cooking, add the fried onions, and before serving, season the soup with sour cream.
Soup from greens with sow: 80 g of sow, 40 g of fresh cucumbers, 15 g of green onion, 10 g of dill, 1.5 cups of kvass, 1/2 cup of curdled milk, 1 potato, 1 g of ready-made mustard. Boil the mushrooms until half cooked, grind in a meat grinder, and cool the broth. Place chopped cucumbers (or borage), add onion, herb puree, dill, mustard, yogurt, kvass and salt. Before serving, add slices of boiled potatoes to the plates.
Snyty, stewed with potatoes: 100g fresh snyty, 100g potatoes, 15 g onions, 1 g dill. 15 g tomato sauce, 15 g sour cream, salt to taste. Chop the prepared young leaves and sprouts, add salt and simmer until half cooked. Then combine with stewed potatoes and onions, add sour cream and continue to simmer for 10-15 minutes. Season with tomato sauce.
Marinated squash: for 1 liter of marinade - 1 tbsp. a spoonful of salt, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 2 cloves (spice), 12 allspice peas, 2 bay leaves, 1/2 liter of 6% vinegar, 1/2 liter of coda, or 1 liter of water, 2 tbsp. spoons of 80% vinegar essence.
Prepare the marinade filling in an enamel bowl. Pour water into a saucepan, add salt, sugar, spices and boil for 10-15 minutes. Then add vinegar and, without letting it boil, heat for another 10-15 minutes. You cannot boil the filling after adding vinegar - it will evaporate.
Only very young mushrooms are recommended for pickling. You can use the petiole together with the leaf blade, but when harvesting for the winter, it is better to take the petioles alone, which are cut to the length of the jar and tightly stuffed vertically into it. If the mushroom is prepared for immediate consumption, it is placed in a hot marinade and heated for 5-10 minutes. Then remove from heat and leave in the marinade for 1 day. For winter canning, the petioles are placed in jars. Bring the marinade to a boil immediately. They fill the jars with it until top edge. Immediately roll them up with sterile lids, turn them over and wrap them in a cotton blanket for 6-12 hours, you can leave them like that overnight.
Now about the ritual of weed control..... This is where I have not had a very good experience. There's been a bug in the flower garden for a long time now. I haven’t weeded it out yet, but other weeds don’t grow. In the beds, with regular loosening, there are no thickets of weeds either, but I don’t pay attention to small ones special attention, the main thing is that the main crop is not slaughtered.
To do this, you need to collect the weeds that you want to get rid of, tie them into a ring where the tops and roots are intertwined, throw them into a strong fire so that they burn completely and scatter the ashes over the area where these weeds should not grow. Conspiracies are welcome, but I can’t post a ready-made one yet, if I just compose it on the go.
Spend on the waning moon.